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After Brexit, I was unfriended by many friends and family members. Some I still speak to, some I don’t. I was so unbelievably ecstatic after Brexit that I quite lost my normal composed, modest demure and instead decided to party-like-it’s-my-birthday for a week and become rather un-ladylike in my normally reserved and shy online conversations.

Ok, that is not exactly true. I’m a loudmouth at the best of times. I would describe myself as somewhat of an activist in this new socially conservative worldwide movement that we are now seeing sweep over Europe and America.

Brexit was a massive, peaceful and very British ‘up-yours’ to the Euro-Globalists that have sought to rule over our Sovereign nation for decades. It was a quiet and polite ‘sod off’ to the unwanted imposition of the State into ordinary people’s lives. And it was very much a ‘jolly good show’ for all those normal quiet people who have been forced to remain silent and maintain a stiff upper lip for years and years and years.

Along with Brexit we have seen Hungary and Poland elect socially conservative governments and the socially conservative parties all across Europe are growing in popularity every day.

The BBC would label these people ‘far-right racist bigots’ i’m sure, and by the BBC’s standards they probably are – but let’s not kid ourselves that the BBC are anything less that a far-left propaganda machine.

Trumps election, I would argue, is even more important than Brexit because rather than just opt-out of something like the UK did, Trump has the power to actually do stuff. It will not really be down to him personally, he is not some sort of messiah, but what he is, is a gateway for change and reform. The people with the opportunity for power now will be those who are of the socially conservative mindset. Not racists, not bigots, just ordinary people who do not want ludicrous notions such as transgender bathrooms and open borders.

The entire socially conservative movement is all about the ordinary people taking back control of their lives, having the freedom to make their own decisions rather than the State enforcing rules upon them, and not being forced to live under the dictatorship of ‘progression’.

So what’s not to love? The future looks bright right now.

The difficulty comes when friends and family cannot accept what is happening. I would argue that most of these people are living in a sort of brainwashed state right now. I know from my own experience that people are generally lazy in terms of gathering information and are generally happy to be spoon-fed information from one source (usually the TV) rather than actually start looking around at different sources from different political perspectives and then making a fully informed decision of important issues.

So it is very difficult to have any sort of discussion with these people when their one source of information is wrongly telling them that Brexit is the end of the world and Trump is the antichrist – of which they are perfectly happy to believe every word. And the popular pathetic journalistic style of hysterical hyper emotion and aggressive self pity only goes to make matters worse, because then your friends and family believe they are being personally attacked.

So now many of us, myself included, are once again having to trudge our way through the minefield of semi informed political opinion and media lies that our friends and relatives believe to be true. Christmas is going to be fun this year.

Clark Griswold in National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.

Many of us will be trying to keep it together this Christmas with the heroics of Clark Griswold. Some of us will deserve medals for not initiating WW3 at the dinner table. Others will find the best option is to sit in a nice quiet corner with a large bottle of Harvey’s Bristol Creme.

To be honest, a large part of me just wants to say ‘Forget it! I’ve had enough!’ I’d rather just be among people who understand me. People who do not have in the back of their minds that they are “worried” about me because they think i’m some sort of Nazi for saying that we should have a much stricter immigration system – similar to that of Australia. Are the Australians all Nazi’s? Of course not.

But I find myself unable to walk away for the pure and simple reason that I might be the only person in these peoples lives who supports this socially conservative movement, and therefore the only person who is able to debunk the bigot Nazi stereotype that the media has had them believe that I am.

How I long to climb back into the safety of the basket with all the other deplorables and revel in our new found glory. But that is beginning to sound like i’m creating my own little ‘safe-space’, and that must never happen. To recluse back into a perfect deplorable world is to allow the media full and unrestricted access to the minds of my loved ones, with absolutely no antidote to the BS.

So I will carry on seeing these people. I will hold my tongue most of the time like I have done for the last few decades while they have been in power. And every time they make an assumption or use a label like bigot or racist, then I will be there on the receiving end of their frustration, misunderstanding and prejudice until they realise that what they are saying is not true, or logical, or good.